Exergen

Exergen is a Melbourne headquartered company which claims to have "developed a breakthrough clean coal technology that, teamed with modern coal-fired power station technology, will deliver up to 40 percent emissions reductions." Exergen refers to the technology as Continuous Hydrothermal De-watering (CHTD) which is used with "brown coal (lignites) and high moisture subbituminous coal."

Exergen is a lead member of the Latrobe Valley Next Generation (LV-NG) which also includes the Indian coal mining and power generation company Tata, the contracting company Theiss, the Japanese trading company Itochu and the engineering firm Sedgman.

The consortium is proposing to build the LV-NG Project which it claims would be a "$1bn plus coal export business" in the Latrobe Valley based on the use of a brown coal de-watering process.

The company claims that the project could export 12 million tonnes of coal per annum "to be completed by 2014 through an investment of AU$1billion". The CEO of Exergen, Jack Hamilton declined to provide an estimate of the greenhouse gas emissions from the project. However, Melissa Fyfe reported that Environment Victoria estimated that "it would produce about 11 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in Indian coal-fired power plants annually."

Personnel

 * Jack Hamilton, CEO

Contact details
Ground Floor, 164 Flinders Lane Melbourne Victoria 3000 Phone: +61 3 9654 9953 Fax: +61 3 9654 5574 Website: http://www.exergen.com.au/index.html

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